<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">The easiest would be Ableton. For hardware I would say the best live units are MPC live (or One,) or Octatrack. MPC will give the best UI and options, octatrack will give you more performative aspects (but greater learning curve.) Nice thing about the MPC is you can usb into say a Tascam Model mixer and digitally send the tracks to the mixer channels.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 13, 2023, at 6:01 AM, Ibi Sum <ibisum@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Load your stuff into a Synthstrom Deluge or SamplTrek?<br><br><div dir="ltr">;<div>--</div><div>seclorum </div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 13.03.2023, at 00:47, Andrew Robinson <andrew@bml.co.uk> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Tom<div><br></div><div>That's an interesting product and some very useful insight - but I think it lacks the UI for the sort of live arranging I want to do, and I'm not deft enough to do it with faders. I've also ruled out the Roland MC 707 and variants (not enough memory) and a few others. Frontrunner at the moment appears to be the Akai Force, but that's weirdly a both a sledgehammer to crack a nut in the synth / fx department while also apparently unable to do some very basic things like switch smoothly between songs or cope with tempo changes.</div><div><br></div><div>- Andy_R </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 at 21:37, Tom Adam <<a href="mailto:tom.adam@thebigear.be">tom.adam@thebigear.be</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi Andy,<div>I was in the exact same position a couple of years ago.</div><div>Long story short, I decided to drastically reduce the amount of HW I was going to take on stage. I knew I was not going to manage a complex set as I also needed to ’sing’ from time to time.</div><div>I got me one of these: Cymatic Audio LP16 to do multitrack playback. (This eliminated the Laptop from the equation), bought me a small euro rack modular (so I had something to do during the gig), and for the rest enjoyed the show a lot.</div><div>The nice thing with the LP16 is that it’s more than just a wav file player with multiple outputs. The downside is that you loose some flexibility…</div><div>It gave me a midi clock signal for my modular and with the multiple out’s I was able to connect some eft boxes and play these life too. </div><div><br></div><div>I’m sure whatever way you decide to go, it’s going to be great fun!</div><div><br></div><div><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12 Mar 2023, at 13:55, Andrew Robinson <<a href="mailto:andrew@bml.co.uk" target="_blank">andrew@bml.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Hello 'Barians<div><br></div><div>So, someone liked my album* enough to book me to play a short gig - 30/40 minutes, in early June. This is great, I have loads of time to rehearse, but the problem is that I've been pretty much evangelically 100% 'in the box' since as soon as that was physically possible, so I have absolutely no idea about live set-ups. Time to turn to the 'bar and to pick your brains on what I need to buy so that I'm not just pressing play on a laptop then having nothing to do for half an hour. If it's affordable to make this laptop-free, great, because then I'll be able to VJ from my MacBook. My keyboard skills are not amazing, so I mostly want to be able to sequence existing audio on the fly, and play a few simple top lines/spot samples.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's what my ideal set-up would be able to do. I have no idea if this is trivial, impossible, cheap, prohibitively expensive, and if I'm going to need 10 boxes or 1 (the fewer the better BTW). </div><div><br></div><div>Live arranging: </div><div>I want to cut my music up into sets of 16 bar stems, maybe a couple of dozen sets of 8-16 of them, and loop them. I want to be able to pick which ones to mute / unmute next time the loop point comes round before it gets there, and/or switch to a different set of stems for the next track/section of track.</div><div><br></div><div>Sequencing: <br></div><div>It would be nice to be able to trigger my TR-909 over midi and two or 3 TB-303s/clones via DIN sync, in time with the above.</div><div><br></div><div>Keyboard multi-samples: </div><div>It would be nice to be able to trigger spot samples live, via my Korg NanoKey2 or similar. </div><div>It would be nice if the sample set automatically changed with the sets of stems above, but not essential.</div><div><br></div><div>Mixing: </div><div>All the above needs to be mixed down a stereo pair. I think I'll need about 16 channels because of the 909's individual outs.</div><div><br></div><div>Would be nice to have: </div><div>Reverb/EQ/distortion at the mixdown stage</div><div>Triggering video playback in VLC in sync with the sets of stems.</div><div>Small size.</div><div>Affordable.</div><div>Possibility for one or two one of my mates to plug in an electric guitar / sing.</div><div><br></div><div>Not really needed:</div><div>Any new synth/rompler functionality</div><div>Heavy multi-effects capability</div><div><br></div><div>...so, what should I be buying?</div><div><br></div><div>- Andy_R</div><div><br></div><div>* Available at <a href="https://lxnen.bandcamp.com/album/false-flag" target="_blank">https://lxnen.bandcamp.com/album/false-flag</a></div><div> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1eQgu59Jc0xa772jGLFX8V" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/album/1eQgu59Jc0xa772jGLFX8V</a></div><div> and on all good streaming services, NOW!</div></div>
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